Updates & Improvements

General

Difficulty options have been removed and Hard is the new default. Characters created on lower difficulties will be transitioned to Hard automatically.

New Intro text during cut scene in the Ocean

Fire and Poison status effects now accumulate more quickly

World

Completely new tutorial and redesign of the Initiation level

Forest Perimeter Level - New and improved Wind Booster puzzles

Forest Crossroads - Swapped locations of demo complete Terminal and Warpstone

Water Boosters are stronger and no longer oscillate up and down

Quality of Life Changes

Game now automatically switches Input Mode between Gamepad or Mouse & Keyboard while at the main menu and while in-game. Will include in-game pause menus in the future.

Swapped default E & R uses for M&K so that E is now the default Interact button, and R attunes the Catalyst in order to align with more common M&K controls. Players can still remap any button as they see fit.

Wet status effect no longer slows the player as much

Increased range of Daggers and Shortswords

Increased collision detection width of all melee weapons (easier to hit with glancing blows)

Leveling Agility no longer increases lateral wall jump distance, only the vertical distance

Reduced base lateral walljump strength and increased vertical jump strength

New Messages screen available on the Reliquary at the Citadel to guide new players

Player can now attune their Catalyst even when only a single rune is unlocked

Performance improvements for water and Spirit Rift particles on Low+Medium graphic quality

Graphics

Updated and added new textures throughout the demo

The Citadel has been given a makeover

Improved the look of Spider enemies and added new arm raising animation when attacking

Improved melee weapon swing trails to not glow while in the dark

Enemies

Reduced Rolluli enemy max life from 200 to 150

Increased forward chop range on Knight's sword swings

Spells

Buffed duration of Wind Sprites summoned via the Orbital Stabilizer Catalyst component

Improved accuracy when altered spells cast another spell that targets a nearby enemy

Lowered Firestorm's projectile spawn locations to reduce chance of impacting ceilings

Sound

Reduced volume of explosion sounds when parts of defeated enemies disappear

Reduced volume of boss defeat animation explosions

Reduced volume of sound effect that plays when opening a capsule chest

Spirit Rifts and Warpstones now play a sound when warping

Map

World is now unveiled as it is explored

Fully completing a level by collecting all items and defeating any bosses now turns the level gold on the map and shows 'Completed' text

Bug Fixes

Fix for AI pathfinding sometimes getting stuck on opened doors

Fix for music getting stuck at 0 volume if set to 0 with M&K

Fix for switch on Forest Crossroad rotating too far when activated

Fix for slow time effect on death stopping too early

Fix or enemies that fire projectiles firing one last shot if defeated after priming attack

Fix for footstep effects playing rapidly when walking into certain low hanging ceilings

Fix for Wind Sprites not firing at target dummies at the Citadel

Fix for gamepad joysticks being able to trigger skip cut scenes attempts

Knight NPCs

Fix for sword swing animations not transitioning properly

Fix to stop sword swings if they are defeated mid swing

Fix to prevent attacking or dodging when stunned by Lightning